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Then it’s back to the Agassiz and the Peabody, where State Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge) stops by and is taken aback by some of the campaign strategy. A pair of supporters holding the same candidate’s sign are standing together, even though there are two entrances to the polling place...
...first time. My second year at Harvard, and the first time anyone had ever followed the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) guidelines that you learn during Freshman Week, the guidelines repeated by proctors and tutors and guards: always ask to see ID. I was taken aback. I reached for my ID when she smiled. “I’m just kidding,” she said as she slid her card through the machine and popped open Leverett’s door...
...taken aback in reading the president of the College Democrats’ smug characterization of President George W. Bush as “acting like he’s Captain America” in his efforts to rally and unite the nation in recent weeks. When I read the The Crimson’s accounts that the College Democrats declined an offer to co-sponsor the Republican Club’s Rally for Patriotism, my outright anger as a now-former member of the organization became such that I could no longer remain silent...
Powell: Nothing really shocked or stunned me walking in. I wanted to do everything that I could to make sure the morale [in the State Department] was high. And I was taken aback that so much needed to be done. But in about a week's time, we'll close the registration period for people to apply for the Foreign Service. And it's going to be the highest number in 15 years or so. So that kind of says the place is starting to bubble and jump...
...then there is our main cover image, Julia Roberts. Some readers may be taken aback to see her in the company of Philip Roth and August Wilson and Ang Lee. But by picking her as America's Best Movie Star, we tried to explore how a performer can transcend her roles and exert such a powerful appeal to audiences that tens of millions are as moved by what happens to her off the screen as on. In an age saturated with celebrities, where a White House intern not only becomes world famous but whose emotional life is laid...